Paul Yu becomes 25th President of SJSU

San Jose State University announced April 20 that Paul Yu, president of the State
University of New York College at Brockport, was named the president of San José State
University by the CSU Board of Trustees. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to become a
member of San José State University, an institution with a great past and, in view of its enormous
potential, an even greater future," Yu said. "The general direction for the university is clear: SJSU
must continue to honor its mission as a public university by supporting quality and access. But
within that broad scope there are many choices to be made regarding the university's goals and
strategies. This is why SJSU should plan carefully for the future. I have had long and broad
experience in leading public institutions, and I look forward to the challenges and opportunities at
SJSU. "

Yu became president of SUNY Brockport in 1997 after extended experiences both as a faculty
member and as an academic administrator. He was a faculty member in the Philosophy
Department at Central Michigan University for twenty years before becoming the Dean of Liberal
Arts and Sciences at Butler University, where he later served as Academic Vice President and
Provost. During his four years at SUNY Brockport he has led a very successful strategic planning
process for the College and has also made significant contributions to the State University of New
York System. Yu holds a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy, all from the University of
Michigan.

Yu's areas of scholarly interest are philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He has
published a number of papers and made many professional presentations. He also has been active
professionally in other ways, including serving as external evaluator for the Chinese University of
Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, and National Science Council of the Republic of China.
In 1980-81, he was invited to be a Fulbright lecturer at the National Taiwan University.

Yu has also been active in other professional and civic capacities, regionally, nationally, and
internationally. He served on the Michigan Council for the Humanities from 1988 to 1989. He has
been a member of Board of Directors of the American Association of University Administrators
(AAUA) since 1998. And in 1990, under the Visiting Scholars Exchange Program (VSEP),
sponsored by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, he was visiting scholar to the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, China.